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Waukegan fronts Lake Michigan and is drained by the Waukegan River and its ravines as they cut down to the shoreline. Low-lying areas along the river and harbor fall within FEMA Special Flood Hazard Areas where an Elevation Certificate is most relevant.
A FEMA Elevation Certificate documents your building’s elevation relative to the Base Flood Elevation on the FEMA flood map. Insurers use it to rate flood policies and communities use it to confirm floodplain compliance; it can also support a Letter of Map Amendment (LOMA) to remove a structure from a flood zone.
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Waukegan is the seat of Lake County and home to roughly 89,321 residents in Waukegan Township (with a portion in Warren Township). The Waukegan River corridor and the Lake Michigan shoreline create mapped floodplain, and a licensed surveyor’s Elevation Certificate documents how a building’s lowest floor compares to the Base Flood Elevation on the county FIRM. That record supports accurate flood-insurance rating, floodplain-development permit compliance, and a Letter of Map Amendment. As the county seat, Waukegan is where survey documents are recorded through the Recording Division of the Lake County Clerk’s Office.
If a Waukegan parcel sits near the Waukegan River, harbor, or a mapped shoreline flood area, an Elevation Certificate documents its elevation against the Base Flood Elevation for insurance and permitting.
It is a surveyor-completed FEMA form capturing a building’s lowest-floor and reference elevations relative to the Base Flood Elevation on the effective flood map.
When it shows the structure is at or above the Base Flood Elevation, the certificate can support a more favorable flood-insurance rating.
Pi Surveying provides the full range of land surveying services for Waukegan property owners and builders:
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Pi Surveying, located in Oak Brook, a suburb of Chicago, Illinois, is a professional land surveying design firm that provides land surveys for both the private and commercial sector.